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Democracy (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

This meme contains a common accusation from 20 years ago, but I think it's odd that it is being posted in 2024, long after it became clear that whatever the purpose of the invasion of Iraq actually was, it wasn't to obtain oil wealth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yea, it was to spread "democracy", duh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well, yes - George W. Bush appears in retrospect to have been sincere. Some of the other powerful supporters of the war did profit from it, but at the expense of American taxpayers rather than Iraqis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

but at the expense of American taxpayers rather than Iraqis

Maybe monetarily. When it came to lives lost, Iraqis paid the higher cost.

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